THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CORRUPTION AS CRIME. ITS MEANING AND OFFERED SOLUTIONS IN THE HISTORICAL MODERN THOUGHT

Abstract

This article analyses —from an historical and philosophical approach— the establishment of corruption as an offense or reprehensible behavior by the thinkers of the Modern Age. Accordingly, it will study the criminal meaning that was given to the corrupt-operations since the fifteenth century by the first theoreticians of the State. Nevertheless, this writing also will attend to another historical and political aspect, in order to contextualize and facilitate the understanding of the analysis, because the thought of a specific moment is indissoluble to its appended circumstances. Finally, it will observe how the proposed solutions will not differ from the proposals offered by the competent and contemporary authorities, because the mechanisms for combating the corruption haven’t undergone significant innovations. This may be the main reason of problem subsistence nowadays